Instant Genius Podcast: Animal senses, with Ed Yong

Instant Genius Podcast: Animal senses, with Ed Yong

Science writer Ed Yong joins us on our podcasts, Instant Genius and Instant Genius Extra.

Published: June 27, 2022 at 6:00 am

Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week's episode, we talk to science writer Ed Yong.

He’s the author of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (£20, Bodley Head).

In this episode, Ed tells us about the staggering diversity of animal senses, from dogs’ powerful sense of smell to birds’ incredible colour vision.

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And if that's not enough, you can hear even more from Ed on Instant Genius Extra.

On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered onInstant Genius. In this episode, Ed tells us about the animal senses that humans don’t have at all.

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